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EREF's 14th Annual Refuse Equipment Auction
is coming to WasteExpo 2008, Chicago

Be a part of one of the waste industry's
largest fundraisers
and one of WasteExpo's premiere events!
Last year $1.2 million was raised in Atlanta.
Click here for
details, including a list of new items donated to-date.
AUCTION BOOKLET COMPLETE - CLICK
HERE TO
VIEW SPECS OF DONATED ITEMS THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR BID
Charitable raffle sponsored by

Pre-Auction Reception sponsored by

For 2008, the Environmental
Research and Eduction Foundation (EREF) has identified three solid
waste management issues for potential funding related to greenhouse
gas (GHG) emissions and climate change. Submitters may propose on
any or all issues. EREF would like to
receive pre-proposals on:
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Determining the municial solid
waste industry's carbon footprint;
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Quntifying the amount of carbon
sequested in municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills; and
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Quatifying the collection
efficiency of gas collection sytems and amount of fugative
emissions from MSW landfills.
Proposals are due at the
close-of-business on May 30, 2008.
Click
HERE for RFP details
PUBLICATION NOW
AVAILABLE
Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Leachate Characterization Study
The
report increases the understanding of how
operational practices, waste types, waste age, and other physical
factors affect leachate quality with
respect to typically regulated inorganic and volatile organic
compounds, and biochemical constituents at
municipal solid waste landfills.
To order the
complete report on CD-ROM, download publication
order form, or contact Sarah
Stancliff at 703-299-5139 x10.
PUBLICATION NOW
AVAILABLE
A
Performance-Based Approach to
Ending Post-Closure Care at
Municipal Solid Waste Landfills:
A Procedure for
Providing Long-Term Stewardship
Under RCRA Subtitle D
EREF developed an innovative
approach toward evaluating long-term care needs at municipal solid
waste (MSW) landfills. The approach emphasizes the operation
of MSW landfills in a manner that reduces the long-term threat to
human health and the environment. Click here
for Research Bulletin.
To order the
complete report on CD-ROM, download publication
order form, or contact Sarah
Stancliff at 703-299-5139 x10.
Case
Statement
from
the President
Waste management practices
are both time-honored and highly evolutionary. The organized
collection of waste dates back thousands of years, recycling at
least hundreds. Yet, awareness of the relationship between
wastes and the broader issues of human health and environmental
protection is recent -- and powerful. In the past two decades,
health and environmental concerns dramatically changed waste management
practices.
While today's practices
are widely recognized as providing adequate protection of health
and the environment, it is also true that serious gaps remain in
our understanding of the long-term sustainability of various waste
management practices. Economic realities and environmental
ideals sometimes clash in waste management. Public attitudes
toward wastes and the waste management industry are often problematic,
and political pressures for change are never far from the surface.
The foundation exists
to address issues such as these and with grants awarded totaling
more than $4.4 million, we are well on our way to becoming an important
community resource working to develop environmental solutions for
the future.
If you believe in our
industry as strongly as we do and accept the premise that research
leads to greater knowledge, then we hope you will join with us as
a donor or through a strategic alliance.
Sincerely,
Michael J. Cagney |